500 Murders In An Elitist Cesspool Run By Crooked Politicians And Union Mobsters

At the stroke of midnight in the toddling town of Chicago, will the sounds of celebration that ring in 2013 be the sound of firecrackers or the sounds of a thug drilling someone full of holes?

The Windy City passed the unfortunate marker of 500 murders on December 27th when Nathaniel Jackson, a 40-year-old man with gang affiliations and a rap sheet longer than your arm, was shot and killed just months after finishing time in the crowbar hotel.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who had pledged to address the city’s crime problem when he took office in 2011, attributed the rise in homicides, in part, to a broader problem with illegal guns.

"Chicago has reached an unfortunate and tragic milestone, which not only marks a needless loss of life but serves as a reminder of the damage that illegal guns and conflicts between gangs cause in our neighborhoods," Emanuel said. [Not Rahmbo’s pithiest statement to be sure, but it seems this is a crisis he fully intends to let go to waste.]

Mark Wachtler has a hard-hitting piece at the Examiner in which he contends that Chicago officials are deflecting blame for the city’s epidemic of murders.

“It’s ironic that the city’s highest ranking official would lay 100% of the blame for the spike in murders on two inanimate objects, when statistics are suggesting the murder rate may be at least partly tied to corruption inside the Mayor’s own City Hall.” 

“It wouldn’t be the first time. One example is when Chicago transitioned from “the bloody ‘80’s” into the 1990’s, a decade even more deadly. The spike in homicides also coincidentally correlates with the election of the city’s new Mayor at the time, Richard Daley. As corruption spread, the homicide rate skyrocketed.” 

[SNIP] 

“Mayor Emanuel and the city were just humiliated over the past two weeks when a separate trial ruled that the Chicago Police Department is corrupt to its core, from top to bottom, and enlists a mandated “code of silence” that exists specifically to protect crooked cops and criminals within the city’s police force and City Hall.”

In the aftermath of the Newtown school slayings, there have been incessant and verbose discussions about gun control.  Rahmbo and his corrupt police department can blame gun and street gangs for the mounting murder rate, but it is the mayor himself who has added to problem.

The moment he took office two years ago, he split up the gang crimes special units and put them on street patrol.  Rather than hiring additional cops to fill a shortage of law enforcement officers he transferred crossing guards and office workers to patrol the streets.  By doing so, Rahmbo’s City Hall could boast that it had increased the numbers of the Chicago Police Department.  Police union officials came to call this deception the “Emanuel Shuffle.”

The “Democratic Machine” went to work in early 2011 when then-Mayor Richard Daley refused to renew or extend the contract of Jody Weis, who two years before had been hired by Daley to “clean up the corruption in Chicago’s police department.”

Weis, a former FBI police officer, did what we was hired to do.  He demoted corrupt police commanders and replaced them with officers he believed were honest. To show just how rampant the corruption was, Weis removed 21 of 25 district commanders, as well as a number of top brass. And while the rank and file officers complained about his crime fighting within the force, Chicago’s murder rate dropped to the lowest level since 1965.

This put Weis at odds with the entire police force and City Hall.  He was replaced by Terry Hillard, the former Police Superintendent and a favorite of the police force and “The Machine.”

It seems appropriate to quote famous Chicago mobster Al Capone who once said, "I got nothing against the honest cop on the beat. You just have them transferred someplace where they can't do you any harm. But don't ever talk to me about the honor of police captains or judges. If they couldn't be bought they wouldn't have the job."

Dems: Government Must Be The Highest Power

God is nowhere to be found in the 2012 Democratic National Convention platform.

Apparently, the thought of God is unbearable.  In a marked change from its 2008 and prior platforms, the Democratic Party has removed the mention of God in its 2012 platform which ironically is titled "Moving America Forward." 

“We need a government that stands up for the hopes, values, and interests of working people, and gives everyone willing to work hard the chance to make the most of their God-given potential.”

Now the words “God-given” have been removed. The paragraph has been restructured to say this:

“We gather to reclaim the basic bargain that built the largest middle class and the most prosperous nation on Earth—the simple principle that in America, hard work should pay off, responsibility should be rewarded, and each one of us should be able to go as far as our talent and drive take us.”

Andrew Green at Catholic Online opines:

“The Democratic platform does retain a rather muted reference to faith, stating that faith, though it does not mention faith in God, ‘has always been a central part of the American story, and it has been a driving force of progress and justice throughout our history.’  Apparently, the atheists would have like even this removed.” 

“The Democratic platform states that the election ‘is not simply a choice between two candidates or two political parties, but between two fundamentally different paths for our country and our families.’”

“That seems quite true, and it also seems that the path the Democratic Party has chosen is the path without God.” 

“This a curiosity indeed: how the Democratic party claims warrant to lead a "nation under God," and a nation whose foundational document refers to the ‘Laws of Nature and Nature's God,’ when the natural law and the name of God have become so abhorrent to it.”

The videos embedded below, featuring Robert Gibbs, Rahm Emanuel, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Dick Durbin show how our Democrat friends are struggling to explain their denial of God.  It will be interesting to see how their “messiah” tries to walk this debacle back.

God Bless You Chick-fil-A®

Throngs of Americans flocked to Chick-fil-A® restaurants across America yesterday gobbling up chicken sandwiches to show their support for free speech and thumb their noses at the intolerance of the Left.

Business was so brisk at some of the privately owned chain's more than 1,600 locations that employees directed traffic in parking lots, lines remained long well past the lunch hour, and managers spoke of record sales.

Video gleefully pinched from Koch’s Tour.

Chick-fil-A® Ruffling The Feathers Of Religious Bigotry

As I write this post it is Sunday.  The Sabbath—a day of rest and a time of worship—a quaint relic of a long-forgotten age.

Sometime around 1980, the rise of big-box stores like Wal-Mart, chain restaurants and entertainment venues expanded commerce to seven days a week.  The secularization of our American society had a lot to do with tossing out the tradition of keeping the Sabbath Day holy, but that’s a story for another time.

On July 16, 2012 when the Baptist Press interviewed President and COO of Chick-fil-A®, a firestorm erupted.  The controversy was set in motion when Dan Cathy said he supported traditional marriage; that subversive belief that marriage is between a man and woman. "We are very much supportive of the family—the biblical definition of the family unit.  We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives."

Atlanta, where Chick-fil-A’s headquarters is located, is ranked eighth behind New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Phoenix, Houston and Seattle for the largest population of gays in America.  Yet, not until Dan Cathy made his personal ideology known, did the “gay community” run around with their hair on fire.  Inman Park and Little Five Points never uttered a peep of criticism toward the restaurant chain which has been in existence since 1967 when it opened its first restaurant in a suburban mall in Atlanta.

So, what we have here are three American cities with a gay population who suddenly feel outrage because Rahm Emanuel, Tom Menino and Ed Lee have declared an all out “chicken war.”

Mark Steyn opines, “If you're a feminist or a gay or any of the other house pets in the Democratic menagerie, you might want to look at Rahm Emanuel's pirouette, and Menino's coziness with Islamic homophobia.”

Rahm “Deadfish” Emanuel should worry more about his city’s murder rate which is higher than the Third World metropolises of Mexico City and Sao Paolo.  His Honor has lost control of the streets and his desperation has caused him to enlist the services of the infamous anti-Semite and Nation of Islam leader, “Calypso Louie” Farrakhan.  Yeah, that’ll help.

When you need the likes of Farrakhan to control the South and West side of Chicago, you truly are the mayor of a shithole.

In Ed Lee’s corner of the world, San Francisco, where you can abort children but you cannot buy a goldfish, Lee has been implicated in a major corruption scandal that could cost city taxpayers upwards of $16 million.  His Honor tweeted, “Very disappointed #ChickFilA doesn’t share San Francisco’s values & strong commitment to equality for everyone.”

Hey Ed, you’ll pardon me for saying that your values ain’t nothin’ to brag about and you should keep your pie hole closed and reopen it only on the witness stand.

So America, ignore these churlish little men in Chicago, Boston and San Francisco.  Why not join the rest of us who genuinely enjoy eating in a restaurant that is clean and serves scrumptious chicken sandwiches and lemonade so good it'll make you want to slap your momma.

Here’s a thought:  Why not sport a We ♥ Chick-fil-A® decal on your car and show the world you support a restaurant that closes on Sunday to give its employees a day of rest, believes in operating debt-free and devotes a percentage of its profits to community charities.